Papers originally presented at the Conference on Modern France, Princeton, N.J., 1950.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint. Originally published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1951.
1. Approaches to an understanding of modern France / by André Siegfried -- 2. The decline of the French élan vital: The élan vital of France: a problem in historical perspective / by John B. Wolf -- 3. The concept of élan vital: a rationalization of weakness / by John Bowditch -- 4. The desiccation of the bourgeois spirit / by John B. Christopher -- French letters and science: 5. The French intellectuals: situation and outlook / by Kenneth Douglas -- 6. Science and French national strength / by Henry E. Guerlac -- French politics: the shifting coalition of the center: 7. The Third Force, 1870-1896 / by L. Arthur Minnich, Jr. 8. The Third Force, 1897-1939 / by Edward Whiting Fox -- 9. The Third Force today / by Charles A. Micaud -- 10. The Christians democrats in modern France / by Robert F. Byrnes -- French politics: the Left and the Right: 11. The decline of the Socialist Party / by Henry W. Ehrmann -- 12. The struggle for control of the French trade-union movement, 1945-1949 / by Val R. Lorwin -- 13. Communists and peasantry in France / by Gordon Wright -- 14. The communists and the foreign relations of France / by Vernon Van Dyke -- 15. Gaullism: retrospect and prospect / by H. Stuart Hughes -- 16. Georges Sorel: apostle of fanaticism / by Scott H. Lytle -- Social and economic problems in present-day France: 17. Strains in the social structure of modern France / by John E. Sawyer -- 18. Population and population trends in modern France / by Dudley Kirk -- 19. French business and the businessman: a social and cultural analysis / by David S. Landes -- 20. The French experiment in nationalization, 1944-1950 / by David H. Pinkney -- 21. The French investment program and its relation to resource allocation / by Richard Ruggles -- 22. The Marshall Plan and French foreign trade / by Warren C. Baum -- Problems of French security: 23. The military defeat of 1940 in retrospect / by Richard D. Challener -- 24. Contemporary concepts of French strategy / by Donald J. Harvey -- 25. Political parties and the French army since liberation / by Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr. -- France in world affairs: The French empire today / by Ellen Hammer -- 27. The reliability of France / by Henry Bertram Hill -- 28. France among the powers / by Fred Latimer Hadsel